. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. BANGS AND PETERS: CHINESE BIRDS. 345 SUTHORA CONSPICILLATA CONSPICILLATA David Suthora conspicillata David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, Bull. 7, 1871, p. 14 (east- ernmost Kokonoor). Ten examples of this interesting Suthora were secured as follows: an adult from south of theTao River, southwestern Kansu, June 1925, 9,500 feet;and ninefromupper Tebbuland, 7,200 to9,500 feet; Septem- ber 1926. Of the latter one is an adult female, badly worn, the autum- nal moult just commenced; an adult male and an adult female with the mo
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. BANGS AND PETERS: CHINESE BIRDS. 345 SUTHORA CONSPICILLATA CONSPICILLATA David Suthora conspicillata David, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, Bull. 7, 1871, p. 14 (east- ernmost Kokonoor). Ten examples of this interesting Suthora were secured as follows: an adult from south of theTao River, southwestern Kansu, June 1925, 9,500 feet;and ninefromupper Tebbuland, 7,200 to9,500 feet; Septem- ber 1926. Of the latter one is an adult female, badly worn, the autum- nal moult just commenced; an adult male and an adult female with the moult nearly complete; and six juvenals of both sexes. These are the first specimens of true conspicillata from near the type locality that either of us have seen, and we find a very different bird from Hupeh, one secured at Hsien-tien-tsze by Zappey, and one from Ichang taken by Styan (in the La Touche collection) both la- belled conspicillata. These agree with conspicHlata in having a white eye-ring, but differ at once in being paler throughout with lighter brown head, and in having very much stouter bills with the culmen more arched. (See text figure below.) The much exaggerated bill of the Hupeh bird is very different from that of any of the small Chinese Suthoras, and is best characterized as a slightly reduced counterpart of that organ as developed in Snthora imicolor. We propose to call the Hupeh form Suthora conspicillata rocki subsp. nov. Type.— ^o. 50711 M. C. Z. from Hsien-tien-tsze, Hupeh, 6,000 feet altitude, adult cf, collected 2 June 1907 by Walter R. Zappey. .^.^^-^^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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